“*GASP* I ask my husband for permission? No, Tim is not my parent. That’s not the point of asking.”
‘Whenever friends asks me to do something, I respond with, ‘Let me ask my husband first.’
‘Maybe he doesn’t hit you, but he makes you apologize for getting upset after something he did to hurt you.’
“He brought you flowers on Tuesday and made you feel like a princess. Yet caused you to cry yourself to sleep on Wednesday over a ‘suspicious’ guy liking your picture.”
‘During my Daddy’s funeral procession, led by the United States Marine Corps, my family noticed the man in this photo pulled over on the side of the road.’
“We passed many other cars that simply went about their day. My daughter did some digging and we found him.”
‘I’m upstairs doing my hair and he comes to the bottom of the stairs and says, ‘BABE! Someone is at the door for you!’
“Of course I roll my eyes because I inconveniently had to pause curling my hair… and then I came down to this.”
‘Was waiting to pick up my kids from school when 3 boys took down the flag. They were having a hard time making sure it didn’t touch the ground, when the third boy laid under it to honor it.’
“I was shocked and yelled to my niece, ‘He just laid under it!’ Wow! I just watched the most amazing act of Patriotism.”
‘It took us a second to realize this firefighter was walking the flights of stairs as all the firefighters did on 9/11. It’s little things like this that make you stop and think.’
This year, 17 years after the fatal attacks, the tradition continues. Never forget.
‘He told me to follow him back into town, so he could fill up my tank and I could make it home.’
“After filling up my gas tank, he offered to buy me something to eat and drink.”
‘Don’t ever come home from work and ask her, ‘What have you been doing all day?”
“Because chances are you’d have nothing if she wasn’t right there with you. I know I wouldn’t.”
‘We were only together a few months when I changed jobs. I quit because they weren’t treating me fairly. I was young and stupid.’
“‘Men don’t just quit their jobs, Brad… they find something else first and they stick it out. That’s just what adults do.’ She was worried because I wasn’t.”
‘I went on a date today– with my son’: Touching way this mom prepares her son to be a ‘perfect gentleman’
“When these sweet little boys grow into almost-men and I watch them escort a girl to the car for the very first time, I hope to beam with pride as they walk around to the passenger side to open her door first.”
